Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell listens as President Trump speaks during a meeting with congressional leaders and administration officials in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in September. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

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President Trump blames the Senate's GOP leader for the health overhaul's failure, hints at tantalizing deals with Democrats, and watches his former strategist work to bulldoze the Republican establishment on Capitol Hill. There's no need for air conditioning at the White House with that chill in the air when Trump, a public official since January, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, first elected to Congress in 1984, meet on Monday, per the AP. A McConnell spokesman says their lunch topic will focus on the fall agenda, per Politico. That includes "completing the budget resolution, passing tax reform to help American families and workers, confirming well-qualified judicial and other nominees, and continuing to provide resources to communities affected by the recent hurricanes.” But it comes amid serious tension.

Steve Bannon, back at Breitbart News after helping Trump win the presidency and serving in the West Wing, reaffirmed his commitment to dumping McConnell in a speech to religious conservatives Saturday. "This is our war," Bannon said. "The establishment started it. ...You all are gonna finish it." Sen. Susan Collins, a Maine moderate who just passed up a run for governor and was a pivotal "no" vote on health care, said Bannon's rhetoric in favor of "hyper partisanship" is exactly what the American people are tired of. "Mitch McConnell is the Senate majority leader," she said. "The president needs him. I'm glad they're working together on tax reform and a lot of other issues. And I'm glad they're meeting this week."

I'd sure like to know where is this massive, influential and powerful religious block that Bannon is rallying to overthrow Washington. I'm a lot more concerned about the Media cult of Fake News that is all over the Internet, rife in the realm of social media, in every network newscast and pontificating from the pulpit of late night talk shows for the Lords of Liberal Left and Democrat deities. That seems to be who the problem Americans are listening to.

Chris Farley

Oct 16, 2017 1:32 PM CDT

Yupper. I sure want whatever those two are working on..

Himself

Oct 16, 2017 1:28 PM CDT

McCONNELL Lunches With McCONMAN White House: $4,000 more for families with business tax cuts - FAKE MATH !!! By slashing corporate tax rates, the Trump administration said Monday, the average U.S. household will get an estimated $4,000 more a year. This stunning 5 percent increase was met with skepticism from tax experts and Democratic lawmakers who said the math was flawed. Spread across every U.S. household, the White House analysis claims it would generate "conservatively" an income jump totaling $504 billion, or about $200 billion more than the revenues currently generated by the corporate income tax. "President Trump complains about fake news -this fake math is as bad as any of the so-called fake news he has complained about," said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat. "This deliberate manipulation of numbers and facts could lead to messing up the good economy the president inherited." http://hosted.ap.org/dynami...